CVE-2025-54409: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment Project Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

AIDE is an advanced intrusion detection environment. From versions 0.13 to 0.19.1, there is a null pointer dereference vulnerability in AIDE. An attacker can crash the program during report printing or database listing after setting extended file attributes with an empty attribute value or with a key containing a comma. A local user might exploit this to cause a local denial of service. This issue has been patched in version 0.19.2. A workaround involves removing xattrs group from rules matching files on affected file systems.

Affected products

• Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment Project Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment: from 0.13, before 0.19.2 (fixed in 0.19.2)

Published 2025-08-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.